Carlina Rethwilm (*1999, Berlin) is a designer studying product design at 
Bauhaus Universität Weimar and Pratt Institute New York. Her work mainly takes place in the mediums of clay and porcelain, where she works at the intersection of ancient craft and digital fabrication, exploring the ways in which we come together to eat (and play with) food. Her projects are rooted in an experimental and process-based design approach, embracing mishaps and unforeseen surprises.

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2021 - present
B.A. product design Bauhaus- Universität Weimar and Pratt Institute New York

2023 - 2024
student assistant, 
Chair for Emerging Technologies, 
Bauhaus-Universität Weimar

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2024 
The Melting Point, Winterwerkschau & Go4Spring, Bauhaus-Universität Weimar

2023/24 
MOSCHVER Shelter for the Homeless,
Bauhaus-Universität Weimar

2023 
Prehistoric Postdigital, Museum für 
Ur-und Frühgeschichte Thüringen, 
Weimar

2023 
Misfits, summaery23, 
Bauhaus-Universität Weimar

2022 
Anschluss, summaery 2022, 
Bauhaus-Universität Weimar

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crethw@gmail.com
carlina.rethwilm@uni-weimar.de

© Carlina Rethwilm 2025

shapeshifters explores two approaches to arranging wooden shingles (cross cut and longitudinally cut), focusing on a chair as a case study. The project aims to rethink the act of sitting in Walter Gropius Bauhaus director's room. The chair’s seat and backrest provide testing grounds for different systems. For this, leftover timber (misfits) is cut and systemised into a stock that arranges shingles as efficiently as possible, intending to minimise milling waste.

2023, Bauhaus-Universität Weimar
timber, steel tubes, aluminium joints
70x75x85cm

Projektmodul/ Misfits

Collaboration with Niklas Danler